Twitter more addictive than smoking and alcohol?

What is your favorite vice? Drinking? Taking a lengthy drag from your favorite cigarette? How about being more ‘hip’ – by being addicted to Twitter? Researchers who made an attempt at measuring just how folks resist their desires claim that it is harder to resist checking your Twitter history compared to lighting up a cigarette or taking a swig of your favorite poison. that team is headed by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago University’s Booth Business School, where their experiment relied on BlackBerrys, gauging the

willpower of 205 society who are aged amoung 18 and 85 all through the German city of Würtzburg in order to monitor such responses within an environment that is as real as possible. (more…)

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Original post by Edwin Kee

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